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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be created equal
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They believe that everyone is created equal by God.
cause/create a disturbance
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Several people were arrested for creating a disturbance outside the embassy.
cause/create a furore
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The security leaks have caused a widespread furore.
cause/create a hazard
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There was concern that overhead power lines could cause a health hazard.
cause/create a problem
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The building’s lack of parking space could cause problems.
cause/create a storm
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The Prime Minister caused a storm by criticizing military commanders.
cause/create confusion
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English spelling often causes confusion for learners.
cause/create friction
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Having my mother living with us causes friction at home.
cause/create hardship
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The severe winter caused great hardship in remote villages.
cause/create havoc
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A strike will cause havoc for commuters.
cause/create resentment
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The special arrangements for overseas students caused resentment among the other students.
cause/create/bring chaos
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Snow has caused chaos on the roads this morning.
cause/create/lead to anxiety
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Their nuclear programme is causing mounting anxiety among other nations, especially Israel.
cause/create/provoke conflict
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Sometimes very small disagreements can cause conflict within a family.
cause/create/wreak mayhem
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For some children, the first fall of snow is an opportunity to create mayhem.
create a climate
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It's important to create a climate of trust between staff and management.
create a display
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She created an award-winning display at the national garden show.
create a file
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I created a file of useful contacts.
create a good/bad atmosphere
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Lighting is one of the most effective ways of creating a good atmosphere.
create a habitat
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The aim is to create a suitable breeding habitat for rare birds.
create a myth
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Stalin created a lot of myths about himself.
create a precedent
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If we allow this once, it will create a precedent.
create a situation (= cause it to happen )
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Tom’s arrival created an awkward situation.
create a vacuum
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His sudden departure created a vacuum at the head of the company.
create a website (= make one )
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The pupils created a website on Henry VIII.
create an image
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The company is trying to create an image of quality and reliability.
create an impression ( also convey an impression formal )
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Arriving late won’t create a very good impression.
create an incentive
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We need to create an incentive for people to recycle their rubbish.
create barriers
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Uniforms are one of the things that create barriers.
create employment (= make new jobs )
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The government is trying to stimulate the economy and create employment.
create expectations (= make people expect that something will happen )
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The events of the last few weeks have created expectations of an economic recession.
create harmony
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The idea is to create better harmony in the community.
create wealth
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The purpose of industry is to create wealth .
create/carve out a niche (= do something in a particular way that is different to and better than anyone else )
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She had carved out a niche for herself as a children's television presenter.
create/cause a shortage
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Poor harvests could cause food shortages in the winter.
create/cause a stir
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Plans for the motorway caused quite a stir among locals.
create/cause/provoke a crisis
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The people fled the country, creating a huge refugee crisis.
create/cause/result in inequality
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Certain economic systems inevitably result in inequality.
created a diversion
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Two prisoners created a diversion to give the men time to escape.
create/leave a vacancy
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the vacancy which was created by White’s resignation
create/produce a design
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Use your imagination to create an interesting design in the garden.
create/produce a sculpture
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Local artists were asked to create sculptures for the garden.
create/produce/establish a code
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They have established a code of practice for advertisers.
establish/create/provide an agenda (= begin to have an agenda )
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We need to establish an agenda for future research.
give/create an illusion
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The mirrors in the room gave an illusion of greater space.
pose/create a dilemma
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The difficult economic situation poses a dilemma for investors.
provide/offer/create a safe haven (for sb)
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The prime minister wanted to create a safe haven for the refugees.
set up/establish/create a commission
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They set up a commission to investigate the problem of youth crime.
set up/establish/create a zone
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The government intends to set up an enterprise zone in the region.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
atmosphere
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It created a wartime atmosphere which could be used to manage the economy and to generate social cohesion.
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Like Jim Burke, they create an atmosphere in which risk taking is encouraged.
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The public rooms are spacious and create a discreet atmosphere of good living.
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What director Michael Winterbottom excels at, instead, is creating an atmosphere of vague religious resonance.
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Independent switches for each light will make it easier to create the appropriate atmosphere .
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A grand jury was convened; the jury condemned the newspapers for creating the atmosphere which instigated the Saturday night riots.
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They wanted to create an atmosphere .
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Glass walls between the classrooms create an open atmosphere .
environment
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Therefore, both over-confidence and under-confidence may play a part in creating an environment in which accidents happen more readily.
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I asked the subordinates how the new managers were to create such an environment .
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Gift of creating a pleasant environment with minimal resources.
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The reason we create artificial environments instead Of accepting natural ones is that we like our environments to be constant and predictable.
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In the second case money was the prime factor, both its getting and spending; it created an artificial environment .
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As one man sees another doing it, it creates an environment where it is okay.
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Do people create their own environment , or will they learn to live in any conditions?
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Most important though, create a safe environment .
file
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As well as creating ordinary compressed files , you can even create self extracting versions.
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Iprocessing files via Wordpad by dragging them on to its icon than by launching the program that created the file.
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Error 1046 Error creating new package file .
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To do this, we will create a file of addresses using the same variable list document.
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Please verify that there is sufficient disk quota and privilege to create a file in the supplied working directory.
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All that is required is to create a new file , although this can be time-consuming.
illusion
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Try tiaras and crowns and always wear hair below your jawline to create the illusion of length.
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These laws create an illusion of safety but do little to prevent such crimes.
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His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections, to create an illusion of space.
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First, the leader has or creates the illusion of a track record of success.
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Such advise fills up too many books of quality management and creates the illusion that something is under control.
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The approach of many a trainee, therefore, was to create the illusion of desirability.
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Pool will use the outer planets to create the illusion of a nova.
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Farther west is the Hudson River, creating the illusion that ocean liners occasionally sail down the street.
image
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They created a fake cultural image , producing nice books, and incited a boom by pushing prices up.
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PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit, annotate and sort the result.
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Over the last year he had worked hard to create an image for himself and it was paying off.
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The world was created and the dancer was created in the same image .
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Use them to create images for brightening up your newsletters, reports, simple diagrams and suchlike.
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On the other hand, supporters spend time and money to create an image that sells.
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Create a still image - in which they work out of role to create an image like a statue or three dimensional photograph.
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Many of the poems continue to create images of male-female tensions.
impression
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The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election.
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One of the things he tries to do in that interview is to create the impression there was a written agreement.
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Advertising also creates the impression that smoking is a socially acceptable norm.
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Deceptive behaviors are those actions intended to create a false impression of reality.
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All of you in our Service teams create the first impression after the contract has been signed.
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To have cancelled the conference would have created an equally bad impression .
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And if all that sounds a bit pious, I've created the wrong impression .
job
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If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs , they would at least have restored economic growth.
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There are many businesses out there that could be creating jobs-good jobs-but the government effectively discourages them from doing so.
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The government, through its regional policy, also provides assistance to companies creating jobs in depressed areas.
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As the population grew, business services increased, creating more job openings and luring more people.
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The scheme would create up to 5,000 jobs during the five years of construction, beginning in 1994.
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The arts create jobs and ideas that people can come to San Francisco and see.
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It will create a number of jobs for people living in the area.
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Instead, this money is being sent abroad to create jobs in nations that use low-cost labor.
market
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Agriculture has also been the beneficiary of rapid industrial growth and urban development, which have created expanding market opportunities.
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Lewie was not just a trader, though: He had the mentality and the will to create a market .
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The discount houses attempt to make profits by creating a market in short-term financial instruments.
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However, the Panel will not allow an offeror to rely on a pre-condition indefinitely as this creates uncertainty in the market .
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Our industry can create new markets and opportunities with a modest investment in language initiatives.
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These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest.
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It was a matter first of embarking on practical ways of increasing harmony and creating a single market .
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They were interpreted as an attempt to create a wider market in cultivated land.
opportunity
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Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room.
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And they created an Opportunity Line-an 800 number anyone could call to get information about training and education services.
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Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots.
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Public organizations can create a spectrum of opportunities , which different communities can seize as they are ready.
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The provision of the equipment does not ensure the mathematical experience, but can create opportunity for it.
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But all it did was create passing opportunities inside for Wilson, Jones and Crouse to take advantage of.
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For those who play the stock market actively, volatility creates opportunities-but also concern.
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There are already early signs that this media flexible approach to our markets is creating opportunities to grow new revenue streams:?
problem
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This success would, however, have created a problem for Kinnock in office.
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For instance, it can create a problem if the team moves.
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This will help traffic problems but will create more parking problems.
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That created another set of problems , of course.
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A grandparent who tries to counteract parents' own methods by being over-indulgent or strict will only create further problems .
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A junior who is tired of sitting on the bench is creating morale problems .
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Though it created problems in times of political crisis, it was the price one had to pay for pursuing high ideals.
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They also created potential problems for Ickes by detailing his own intimate involvement in the fund-raising effort.
system
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We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time.
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It tends to create similar value systems .
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It created a factory system which has spread to other industries.
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They created a system of elected building captains and court captains to enforce them.
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Gorbachev had stressed the urgency of creating the new presidential system in order to safeguard democratization and perestroika.
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Within the Microsoft division that creates operating systems , revenues increased by 72 percent.
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The challenge of creating a living system of any size is daunting.
wealth
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The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first, and then improve our public services.
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You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces.
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At stake is whether the scheme will create more wealth than it destroys.
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It is this shift in perspective that is creating a wealth of new possibilities.
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Finally, arrangements are to be created to redistribute wealth in the region.
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Still, a public offering would create instant wealth for the small group of full partners in Goldman Sachs.
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This positive mandate to create wealth however is in the context of our fiduciary responsibilities.
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They invest it in creating more wealth .
world
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As parts of that created world , he has not finished with us either.
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On the big boring mills of the Midvale shop, Taylor was creating a new world of work.
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Through him he created the worlds .
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In a landscape of such transience and amnesia, the burden of creating a world shifts to the watcher.
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Kane, in creating the world , did not, like Yahweh, make light: he made himself into light.
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What about my creating the whole damn world ?
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Reading is about creating worlds with words.
■ VERB
help
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Departments can also help to create a sense of identity and community, and often have discussion groups available.
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Foreign money capitalized the long expansion that lower taxes helped to create .
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The finding may help scientists create drugs to treat obese humans.
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The Pro-Style collection has been carefully designed to help create and control all styles on all hair types.
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As a matter of fact it may even help create one.
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After all, it was the wilderness that had helped to create him.
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Becky Trayser at Fratney helps her students create a web of possibilities for each topic they are covering.
try
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Think about where and with whom you feel most positive and try to create more of that in your life.
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After that, Simon had often tried to create the saddest sentence in the world.
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This is because we are trying to create a better world now, I hastily reassure myself.
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But one of the problems, experts say, was trying to create artificial intelligence in our own image.
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Instead of controlling my children, I tried to create an intimacy with them.
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I've always wanted to be involved in things that tried to somehow create a women's network.
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It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A bullet exceeding the speed of sound creates two shock waves.
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Agatha Christie created the character Hercule Poirot.
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Land movement created the Alps.
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Margot's outburst created an unpleasant atmosphere and most of the guests left early.
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Mary Quant created a whole new look for women's clothes in the 1960s.
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Picasso created a completely new style of painting.
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Several children created a disturbance.
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She wanted to create a garden to complement her beautiful home.
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Some believe the universe was created by a big explosion.
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The end of the cold war helped create a situation in which more countries than ever have access to nuclear weapons.
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The pen pal program was created by teacher Cindy Lee.
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The software makes it easy to create colorful charts and graphs.
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The white walls and mirrors helped to create an illusion of space.
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This dish was created by master chef Marco Pierre White.
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We found that this chemical process created hydrogen chloride as a by-product.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few such designs may be created before a final decision is made by the artist and client.
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But what it does is create a space for renewal and reflection on the universe and its injustices.
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If these measures had been designed to encourage investment, or to create jobs, they would at least have restored economic growth.
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Man has been created to have dominion in this world.
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My father employed three people to create them.
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On the other hand, millions of new jobs have also been created.
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This has created considerably greater demand for both rentals and purchases.